Scilla Elworthy

Founder of Peace Direct, Leading the Business Plan for Peace, Nobel Peace Prize Nominee

Peace is Possible – The Journey of the Mighty Heart

Highlights from this session:

Scilla Elworthy underscores the imperative for women's involvement in peace negotiations, highlighting their unique strengths and skills as essential components in resolving conflicts and preventing future ones. With over 20 years of experience negotiating nuclear disarmament, she emphasizes the transformative power of listening from the heart, recognizing it as a source of unexpected wisdom and resilience. She advocates for harnessing the energy of a broken heart to drive positive change, urging individuals to channel their emotions into constructive peacebuilding efforts, starting from within their relationships. Scilla Elworthy's message inspires a call to action, reminding us that every individual can catalyze peace and transformation.

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Scilla Elworthy

Dr Scilla Elworthy is a three times Nobel Peace Prize nominee for her work with Oxford Research Group to develop effective dialogue between nuclear weapons policy-makers worldwide and their critics.

Scilla founded Peace Direct in 2002 to fund‚ promote and learn from local peace-builders in conflict areas‚ was awarded the Niwano Peace Prize in 2003‚ the Luxembourg Peace Prize in 2020, the Goi Peace Award in 2023, and advised Peter Gabriel‚ Archbishop Desmond Tutu and Sir Richard Branson in setting up ‘The Elders’. Her TED talk on nonviolence has been viewed by over 1‚500‚000 people on TED Global and YouTube.

Scilla now leads The Business Plan for Peace to help prevent violent conflict and build sustainable peace throughout the world‚ because it is possible; based on her latest books The Business Plan for Peace: Building a World Without War (2017) and The Mighty Heart: how to transform conflict (2020)‚ now an on-line course.

Aleksandra Hirszfeld